How Much – How Little (for Baritone and Electronics)

Composer: Soheil Shirangi • Text: Emily Dickinson
Year of Creation: 2025
Performer: Andrew White — Baritone • David Wolfson — Piano
Performance: August 18, 2025 — The Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza, New York City
Event: Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring Andrew White, presented by Vox Novus in collaboration with Composers Concordance
Curator: Robert Voisey
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How Much – How Little is a contemplative work inspired by Emily Dickinson’s brief yet profound poetry. Written for baritone and electronics, it explores the delicate balance between agency and limitation, presence and absence. Sparse textures and subtle electronic processing frame the voice in a meditative sonic space where emotion emerges through restraint. The dialogue between sound and silence becomes a metaphor for human fragility—how much can be expressed through how little is said.

Presented by: Vox Novus | Composers Concordance | Curator: Robert Voisey